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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (416160)	6/18/2003 10:52:24 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769668

It was rich Republicans running most of the scams and Texas OIL BOYZ from Bushes playground that ruined the economies of many retirees and the entire State of California..... Bush is in charge of the loss of THREE MILLION JOBS my right wing friend.....not Clinton and while Bush is working his pathetic 8 hour days trying not to dring with Dick in the Bunker: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Boeing 727 had not budged from its parking place at the airport in Angola's capital for 14 months. So when the jetliner started taxiing down the runway, the men in the control tower radioed the pilot for an explanation. There was no reply, even after the plane rumbled to a takeoff into the African skies. The plane has been missing since it took off from the Luanda airport on May 25, setting off a continent-wide search that includes the CIA, the State Department and a number of African nations. Their fear is that terrorists could stage a replay of Sept. 11, using the plane in a suicide attack somewhere in Africa. U.S. authorities say it is likely the airplane was taken as part of a business dispute or financial scam. Even so, they say, there is a danger that unscrupulous people in control of a plane that size could make it available to arms or gem smugglers, guerrilla movements or terrorists. In the post-Sept. 11 world, even the possibility that terrorists could obtain a large aircraft prompts intensive government scrutiny. U.S. officials are alarmed because large swaths of Africa are under heightened alert for terrorism . Last month, 42 people, including 13 terrorists, died in a series of orchestrated suicide bombings in Casablanca, Morocco. In November, 16 people, including three terrorists, died in the bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya. Western intelligence officials say Al-Qaida operatives are known to be casing possible targets in Kenya and other East African nations. Homeland Security Department officials said that given the likelihood that thieves and not Al-Qaida are behind the vanished 727, there is no cause for grave alarm. "Yes, there is concern, and an ongoing search, but it is not one that could be described as a desperate search," said Homeland Security Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse. According to the private Airclaims airplane database, the 727's current owner is a Miami-based firm called Aerospace Sales & Leasing Co., which bought it in 2001 after it was flown by American Airlines for decades. According to the Airclaims database, a firm called Irwin Air had planned to buy the 727 last month. No more information could be learned about the company. Helder Preza, Angola's aviation director, told the Portuguese radio network RDP that the plane arrived in Luanda in March 2002, but that authorities prevented it from flying on because "the documentation we held did not pertain to the aircraft in question." Angolan officials also demanded payment of stiff ramp fees as well as settlement of private liens on the 727, said Lance Joseph, son of the Aerospace Sales president. Aerospace Sales was settling the disputes and planning to repossess the aircraft and fly it away when the 727 -- one of about 1,100 worldwide -- disappeared, he said. CC

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (416160)	6/18/2003 11:12:12 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769668

Re: "...he let the Chinese have our secrets so that now they can accurately fire missiles at the USA?" >>> You mean several large Republican-leaning defense contractors (Loral, Lockheed, Boeing) illegally helped the Chinese correct problems with their launch and targeting systems (during commercial satellite launches)... for which they were investigated by the FBI and prosecuted successfully by the administration... all of the contractors paid large fines for violating US laws on export of sensitive technologies. "...That is just one of the things he screwed up, not to mention allowing a huge bubble on the stock market which eventually devastated many people's retirement accounts." >>> I would blame Congress for the bubble (principally Lieberman, Dodd, Delay, and Breaux... although there were many others). They fought tooth and nail against the administration's plans to reform the auditing rules, expense stock options, etc. (supported by Greenspan, Buffett, Rubin, SEC Chairman Levitt, US Accounting standards Board, etc.) >>> It was a close fight, a multi-year fight, and came down to just a few votes in Congress... but the Crony Capitalists and the politicians they bought and paid for won and KILLED THE REFORM EFFORT. >>> If the Levitt/Rubin Clinton-era reforms had been allowed to pass... there likely would have been no financial bubble.